The Heart of the Continent: A Record of Travel Across the Plains and in Oregon, with an Examination of the Mormon Principle

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Seite 11 ... for many courtesies in Colorado, Just before we left, Mr. Munger got word from
further west that the buffaloes had started northward for their summer resorts, and
were now reported upon the south bank of the Republican Fork of the Kaw.

Seite 18 the pole, and we were in imminent danger of being tipped over or backed down
the steep bank. I jumped down upon the pole, and caught the reins just in time to
save us; our Denver friend leaped out with his pistol drawn, and induced the ...

Seite 45 It was as if some great agricultural nation had suddenly been driven out of its
ancient possessions, or stricken quickly asleep by magic in the deep green
groves along the river-bank. But without apparent hyperbole it is impossible to
convey the ...

Seite 47 We found the Republican a clear stream, about fifteen rods in width at the place
where we struck it, — full of sandbars and quicksands, with treacherous banks of
black and yellow loam, which came near casting our horses when we tried -to ...

Seite 48 A neater workshop or nicer work than this on the bank of the Republican never
existed among the professors of any handicraft. Where the logs had suffered their
final reduction, they were of as uniform length as if they had been cut by the ...